SHIR PERETS

Shir Perets is a Breaking News Writer and Editor at The Jerusalem Post. She grew up in central Israel and is a graduate of Bar-Ilan University, where she studied English literature and communications.

When she isn’t writing, Shir can be found painting, building Legos, feeding stray cats, or singing along to Taylor Swift.


 Former prime minister Naftali Bennett, Conservative pundit Tucker Carlson over a backdrop of a Mossad ad

'Categorically false': Bennett decries Carlson's allegation Epstein worked for Israel's Mossad

 LEFT: Attorney-General Gali Baharav-Miara RIGHT: National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir

'Criminal conflict of interest': Ben-Gvir slams A-G over journalist's postponed investigation

 xAI and Grok logos are seen in this illustration taken, February 16, 2025.

Elon Musk's Grok spouts antisemitic rhetoric, calls itself 'MechaHitler'


Saudi Arabia activates US THAAD to deter looming Iran missile threat

The battery was reportedly purchased in a deal with US President Donald Trump during his first term, which includes an additional six THAAD batteries, 44 launchers, and 360 interceptors.

 Saudi Arabia’s Air Defense Forces announced the inauguration of its first battery of the THAAD missile defense system

Germany charges Syrian juvenile who assisted in planned terror attack on Taylor Swift concert

The juvenile allegedly assisted the would-be Austrian terrorist by translating Arabic bomb-building instructions and putting him in contact with a member of the Islamic State militia online.

 STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN Taylor Swift performs at the Friends Arena in Stockholm, Sweden, May 17, 2024.

Trump confirms US airstrikes on Iranian nuclear sites

US President Donald Trump confirmed that the US conducted airstrikes on nuclear facilities in Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan in a Truth Social post on Saturday night.

 L to R: Iran Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and US President Donald Trump against backdrop of respective flags and missile strikes.

IRGC claims to use new Fateh missile in overnight barrages on Israel - report

No casualties or injuries have been reported have been reported from the strikes, and MDA provided treatment to Israelis who were injured on the way to shelters.

Missiles launched from Iran are intercepted as seen from the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, June 18, 2025.

Sirens sound across Israel following Iranian attack, no injures reported

Multiple fires have broken out due to shrapnel hitting residential buildings in northern and central Israel.

 Missiles launched from Iran are intercepted as seen from the Golan Heights, June 18, 2025.

Seven killed, at least 130 wounded in two direct hits in central Israel

The Home Front Command has estimated that some 35 people are still missing as searches continue.

 The aftermath of ruins in Bat Yam, central Israel following direct Iranian missile impacts, June 15, 2025

Israel considering striking Iran in coming days - without US support - report

Additionally, on Wednesday, the US authorized the evacuation of certain personnel in Iraq in anticipation of a potential Israeli strike on Iran.

 Iranian centrifuges are seen on display during a meeting between Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and nuclear scientists and personnel of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), in Tehran, Iran June 11, 2023.

IDF probe: IDF failed to defend Yechini area, Israel Police, civilians left to protect themselves

An IDF probe found that the IDF failed to protect the Yechini area, and civilians courageously and professionally risked their lives; 13 civilians and four members of security forces.

 A view of houses in Kibbutz Kfar Aza four months after the October 7 massacre.

'A profound moral failure': Israeli officials react to British sanctions on Ben-Gvir, Smotrich

"Britain has already tried once to prevent us from settling the cradle of our homeland, and we will not allow it to do so again," Smotrich stated.

 MK Itamar Ben-Gvir, head of the Otzma Yehudit political party and Chairman of the Religious Zionism party MK Bezalel Smotrich at an election campaign event in Sderot, October 26, 2022.

Antisemitic neo-Nazi group ‘the Base’ to hold training event in US - report

The Base currently operates primarily out of Ukraine after a years-long FBI counter-terrorism operation dissolved the group's US branch.

 A protestor carries a white supremacist and antisemitic sign outside the Kenosha County Courthouse on the second day of jury deliberations in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial, in Kenosha, Wisconsin, US, November 17, 2021.